After 3 rounds of bz, the energy advantage gained by the "reverse cross" side has been exhausted, so the two sides entered into a melee. But at this time, the rookies no longer had the strength to fight. First, it was the storm-like one just now

The attack completely stunned them, and it was also because in the attack just now, many lead aircraft lost their wingmen, or the wingmen lost their lead aircraft, and there was organizational chaos. In terms of mutual cooperation, it was similar to the "reverse cross"

Compared with the others, there is a big gap. Therefore, although according to the settings, the P-47 has obvious advantages in resistance to strikes and firepower, and these two properties, according to Ron, are the most important in group fights.

performance. But at this time, the "reverse cross" aircraft still had an overwhelming advantage.

At this time, the assault formation also began to launch a full-scale attack on the bomber group. Not only did it not achieve much success in the battle with the escort formation, but it also failed to prevent the enemy from attacking the bombers. Not to mention preventing it, it even interfered.

Didn't do it!

"We can't continue like this! If this continues, it won't be long before everything is over!" Henry thought silently after avoiding a round of blows.

"Someone help me! They're biting me!" Someone's cry for help came from the earphones.

"Hurry up and dive!" someone replied.

"That's right, dive!" Henry thought. He immediately called on the radio:

"Brothers, listen to me and dive away immediately. Our target is the assault group below!" After saying that, Henry took the lead and dived down first.

The rookies were in a state of bewilderment. Suddenly someone stood up to lead them at such a critical moment and gave them instructions. Regardless of whether the instructions were correct or not, at least this gave the rookies a new direction. So one by one, the rookies moved in.

dived.

"The response is good." Several "Reverse Cross" pilots sighed in their cockpits.

"The single aircraft will find other lone aircraft as soon as possible to form a temporary formation!" Henry continued to give orders while diving.

At this time, Father Poyimpu and his assault formation had just broken out of the box formation of bombers and were adjusting their formation to prepare for the second round of assault. At this time, Ron's voice came from his earphones

:

"Dad, they are coming for you, be careful!"

"I got it, thank you." Dad then gave the order, "The assault formation is ready for air combat."

Henry roared down with the rookies, and Ron followed closely with the "Reverse Cross" escort formation. From the height of their battle to the height of the assault formation, the height difference in between was not enough for Henry and the others to escape.

The opponent's attack, but the solid body of the P-47 showed its power at this time. The 13mm machine gun bullets and 20mm artillery shells fired from the 6 o'clock direction were not powerful enough due to the influence of the firing direction.

It would cause too fatal damage to a big guy like the P-47. At least, a single shot would never achieve such an effect. The six 20mm rotary cannons on the P-47 are completely different. With 1,300 rounds each,

With a firing speed of 1,000 meters per second and a high muzzle velocity of 1,000 meters per second, even if the fw190 is specially armored and reinforced, if it is hit by a round of firing from this guy, even if it is lucky enough to survive, it will definitely not have a few breaths left.

So Henry continued to issue instructions: "Concentrate your strength, attack the leading enemy planes, and break up their formation! Shoot if you have the opportunity. Remember the instructor's words, a rookie has no money to save shells!"

"05, 07, and 08 follow me and attack the enemy aircraft in turn!"

The whizzing P-47s flew directly towards the assault formation. At this time, the assault formation also spread out their formation to facilitate dodge. Originally, Dad thought that it was not too difficult to dodge the attacks of these rookies.

But he immediately discovered that things were not as simple as he imagined. Those rookies were really good at learning and selling. Several P-47s pounced on him in succession. At first, Dad wanted to pass

He made a small turn to avoid it, but he immediately realized that he had made a mistake. There was a huge difference between dodging enemy attacks in exercises and dodging enemy attacks in actual combat, that is, the opponent only used blank ammunition.

, there were no traces left by the shells streaking across the sky to help him decide how to dodge. Of course, similarly, the enemy could not use this to correct his shooting. But at this moment, when Dad saw the enemy plane on the wing,

When he started to spit out flames, he discovered a trouble: he didn't know how many meters the intersection point of the opposite aircraft was, which made it impossible for him to accurately judge the opponent's ballistics. Small-scale evasive actions became very unsafe.

, to escape safely first, a bigger move is essential.

So Dad had to make an evasive maneuver with a larger G value, but then several enemy planes took turns to pounce on him. Of course Dad would not make the mistake of stalling during the turn and dodge, but he had no choice but to do so.

Next, he could only choose to dive away.

A similar situation also happened to several other unlucky pilots. Although the results of this counterattack led by Henry are hard to say, at least they succeeded in disrupting the assault formation.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the overall situation. Although Henry showed many clever tricks in the subsequent battles, such as passing through the bomber formation to get rid of the tail-biting "reverse cross", they no longer had the advantage in numbers in front of them.

Against a more skilled opponent, he was really helpless. But in the end, Henry, who saw the situation was not going well, managed to escape with his wingman through a long-distance dive.

The specific results of this battle did not come out until the next day. Overall, of course, the "Reverse Cross" still won. The rookies did not protect the bombers well. They lost 5 of the 12 bombers and 22 of the 43 P-47s.

However, the rookies did not gain anything. 5 "Reverse Cross"s were judged to have been damaged, and 4 were judged to have been shot down. Among them was Dad. After this result came out, Dad was very depressed.

for a while.

However, Ron is still very satisfied with the results of this exercise. On the one hand, it made the rookies realize their own gaps, and on the other hand, it also gave them hope of catching up. Moreover, some rookies, especially Henry, performed well in this exercise.

It shows that these rookies are growing up very well. According to Ron, in another year, maybe this guy will be our "reverse cross" person.

The promotion effect of failure on the rookies was quite obvious, especially the passivity after the organizational chaos left a deep impression on the rookies. So the discussion of remedies for this weakness also started vigorously among the rookies.

"Every team should have a backup leader, and every lead and wingman combination should know who they can regroup with if they get separated!"

"When faced with the entanglement of the enemy's escort formation, you should make less trouble with them and directly attack the enemy's assault formation. Don't be afraid of being chased by BF109s behind you!"

…

A month later, when these rookies graduated, they were actually able to score 1.5 to 1 with the "Inverse Cross".
Chapter completed!